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palaeolith

palaeolith is the alternative form of paleolith.

Meaning of paleolith

Noun

paleolith (plural paleoliths)

  1. A relic from the Paleolithic era.
    • A large number of the reported discoveries of paleoliths in Kent had been made in the district surrounding the village of Ightham, some seven miles east of Shoreham, where Prestwich had his country home.1990, George W. Stocking, Bones, Bodies, Behavior: Essays on Biological Anthropology, page 94

Forms of palaeolith

pluralpalaeoliths

Origin of palaeolith

From palaeo- + -lith.

Questions about palaeolith

What is palaeolith the alternative form of?
Palaeolith is the alternative form of paleolith.

Words near palaeolith in the dictionary

  1. palaeoliberals
  2. palaeolimnological
  3. palaeolimnologist
  4. palaeolimnologists
  5. palaeolimnology
  6. palaeolith
  7. palaeolithic
  8. palaeolithical
  9. palaeoliths
  10. Palaeologan
  11. Palaeologans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: palaeolith (page history and authors); paleolith (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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